BRITAIN’S MAYOR.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 264, 29 November 1928, Page 7

BRITAIN’S MAYOR.

Cities in the British Empire, like individuals, are eligible for Royal {tokens of esteem (says an editorial comment in the Christian Science Monitor, of Boston, U.S.A.). Nottingham, Leicester, Stoke-on-Trent, and Portsmouth, each boasting about a quarter of a million inhabitants, have just been informed officially that they have received new distinction. The chief magistrate in each of them, hitherto known as "the mayor” is henceforth to be entitled to affix the word “lord” to this designation. They thus join the distinguished company of Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Norwich, Sheffield and York, which are already securely possessed of this honour.

Nevertheless, these cities are not yet at the top of the civic ladder. “Lord mayors” they now have, but these are only entitiled to be called “worshipful.” For their chief exe-

cutive to be entitled to the designation “right honourable,” as is the) .case with London, York, Liverpool,'

I Belfast, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, a further step in promotion remains. A mayor in Britain is great.

a lord mayor is greater, but a right honourable lord mayor Is the greatest of all! It should’. be added that. Edinburgh and Glasgow can challenge this superlative, for each has a chief magistrate entitled to be designated the “Right honourable Lord Provost.”